AUTOTOMY

In the supermarket we were buying mangoes and bananas since we’d been too lazy to hit the street market on the weekend, where you get the best prices for fruits and vegetables. Normally there’s a store attendant in the produce area and that person weighs and stamps the prices on your items for you. But that day only the armed security guard was available. So he left his post, gun at his side, and weighed the mangoes for us, smiling, as if he were the produce man.